Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Mexico and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Swell Maps to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Machine,
A Certain Ratio,
Sun Ra,
AZ,
David Axelrod,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Jandek,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Harry Pussy,
Excepter,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Basic Channel,
Isaac Hayes,
Pylon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Standells,
The Gap Band,
The Fortunes,
Janne Schatter,
Moss Icon,
Absolute Body Control,
Q65,
Country Teasers,
Essential Logic,
Sonic Youth,
Suicide,
Alphaville,
CMW,
Severed Heads,
Trumans Water,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Leaves,
Unwound,
Al Stewart,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Subhumans,
Kaleidoscope,
Amon Düül,
OOIOO,
Mandrill,
Faraquet,
Terrestrial Tones,
Idris Muhammad,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bobby Womack,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rakim,
John Lydon,
The Smoke,
Funkadelic,
Mad Mike,
Agent Orange,
Cheater Slicks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Martian,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.